Geographic Information System school training courses in Carson City, NV (public, in-house or online)

WNC’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program offers students access to rapidly growing career tracks in agencies and industries using computer software packages to store and present information about resources, water, soils geography, land uses, development patterns, utilities and other mapping related functions of planning and management.

Through lectures and laboratory exercises, this course illustrates the fundamental concepts of GIS and remote sensing technologies in the context of environmental engineering. Topics include the physical basis for remote sensing, remote sensing systems, digital image processing, data structures, database design, and spatial data analysis. The course is not intended to provide students with extensive training in particular image processing or GIS packages. However, hands-on computer laboratory se...

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The Geographic Information Systems associate degree program provides the community with skilled professionals who use, edit, and make decisions using GIS systems. Graduates can work in diverse industries that use geographic information systems, including government agencies, health care, construction, banking, land-use planning, transportation mapping and analysis, and emergency response.

With the growth of decision-making using spatial data and geographic locations, many businesses are l...

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GIS is an evolving technology that has changed greatly in the last decade and is affecting many disciplines. This certificate has been designed to provide fundamental knowledge and skills needed to implement GIS in your business or organization.

This course serves as an optional preliminary course to the Certificate Program in Geographic Information Systems and fulfills prerequisite requirements for the Graduate Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures
Introduces the concepts and skills essential to use a geographic information system (GIS) for spatial analysis and problem-solving. Focus is initially on the use, design and construction of maps. Students complete GIS tasks from data collection and spatial analysis t...

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